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Prayer for the Evening

In Christ is our life: come, let us adore!

Glory to the Father…. Alleluia!

HymnMeter: CM
This hymn can be sung to the tune used for
O God, Our Help in Ages Past

Where temple offerings are made,
And knowing he must die,
Our Master, resting in the shade,
Watches the world go by.

Some offer silver, others gold,
Some what they can afford;
Some give, in order to withhold,
And some to gain reward.

A widow passing by, who scarce
Can scrape enough to live,
She finds two pennies in her purse,
Gives all that she can give.

How deeply moved is he by this,
He leaves us in no doubt:
And he himself will die for us
Before the week is out.

CanticlePhilippians 2:6-11

For you know the gracious act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor although he was rich, so that by his poverty you might become rich. (2 Cor 8:9)

Wealth has always been a source of power. Scripture often groups widows and orphans together as images not only of the poor but of the powerless in a society sometimes ill-prepared or unwilling to protect them from exploitation and starvation. In taking on mortal flesh, Jesus Christ chose radical human powerlessness to defeat the powers of sin and death. He delivers us all from the profound poverty of our helplessness in the face of these “powers.”

Though he was in the form of God,
Jesus did not deem equality with God
something to be grasped at.

Rather, he emptied himself
and took the form of a slave,
being born in the likeness of men.

He was known to be of human estate,
and it was thus that he humbled himself,
obediently accepting even death,
death on a cross!

Because of this,
God highly exalted him
and bestowed on him the name
above every other name,

So that at Jesus’ name
every knee must bend
in the heavens, on the earth,
and under the earth,
and every tongue proclaim
to the glory of God the Father:
Jesus Christ is Lord!

Word of GodExodus 22:20-22

You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt. You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry.

Do not oppress the widow or the orphan,
the alien or the poor; do not plot evil
against one another in your hearts.
(Zec 7:10)

Canticle of Mary(Text, back cover A)

God is not deaf to the wail of the orphan,/ nor to the widow when she pours out her complaint. (cf. Sir 35:14)

My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord,
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.

From this day all generations will call me blessed:
the Almighty has done great things for me,
and holy is his Name.

He has mercy on those who fear him
in every generation.

He has shown the strength of his arm,
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.

He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,
and has lifted up the lowly.

He has filled the hungry with good things,
and the rich he has sent away empty.

He has come to the help of his servant Israel
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,
the promise he made to our fathers,
to Abraham and his children for ever.

Glory to the Father…

Intercessions

With trust in the God who has so loved the world, we pray:

R/MMay the Death of Christ be our rising to new life!

For those who are politically, socially, or economically powerless:
– grant them help and protection through the work of committed Christians: R/

For those who have abandoned hope of deliverance:
– reawaken their trust in your power to save: R/

For those whose lives are darkened by the fear of death:
– strengthen them in the promise of resurrection: R/

Personal intentions

Our Father….

May we be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. Amen. (cf. 2 Tm 2:1)

Marian Antiphon (page 10 or 11)

Blessed are you,
O Mary, Mother of the Lord Jesus Christ,
for from you came forth the salvation of the world;
now therefore glorious, you rejoice before the Lord;
intercede for us with your Son.

Translated by James Monti

Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae;
vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve.
Ad te clamamus, exsules filii Evae.
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
in hac lacrimarum valle.

Eia ergo, advocata nostra,
illos tuos misericordes oculos
ad nos converte.
Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui,
nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.
O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria.

Hail, holy Queen, mother of mercy,
our life, our sweetness, and our hope.
To you do we cry,
poor banished children of Eve.
To you do we send up our sighs,
mourning and weeping in this valley of tears.
Turn then, O most gracious advocate,
your eyes of mercy toward us,
and after this our exile
show unto us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus.
O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary.

V/ Pray for us, O holy Mother of God,
R/ That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.